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i like the diaspora platform, i like the connections through interests/tags concepts, but i have been doing less 'social networking' in general lately, reddit is pretty much my social network, that and my actual real life friends. i quit fbook over cispa, I still tweet, but find that tweeting is just like standing in the middle of the street and shouting, i rarely go there to see what the people I 'follow' have posted.

I joined Diaspora during beta testing. Loved the concept and the people working on the project, but it never took off. Same problem I had with Google+. For a social networking site, it was hardly very social. I do a lot of photography and videography, so content ownership is very important to me. However, I usually use other sites, such as Flickr or Vimeo, to host that content so I can share with my friends on Facebook.

Most people don't care if their information is being given to third parties. Google does this all the time to individually customize search results.

If I don't know anyone on Diaspora, I'm not inclined to spend any time on the website. How can I give in to my narcissism if Diaspora looks like a place where a diaspora has occurred?

You're right, someone has to start using a different service than Facebook to start a migration away from Facebook. It's happened before -- think of MySpace, and the move away from that to Facebook.

However, Facebook has done something that MySpace and Friendster never did -- Facebook has put its fingers in everything. People are going to be about as likely to move away from Facebook as they are to move away from Google -- that is, not very. I think the best bet is that your own group of friends will use a different social network in addition to Facebook, because most people are always going to have friends who only use Facebook. It's much like how Twitter is not a replacement for Facebook, but a network that is used in conjunction with Facebook.

Seems kinda shitty. I tried to connect to http://cubbi.es/ and that failed (silently) as well.

I've done a little reading about Diaspora and I get the impression that it'd be better to sign up from a better "pod" from here http://podupti.me/ . I noticed that mul.tiver.se is listed, but it's hidden because it doesn't support ssl.